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Watermelon Residency is an artistic residency divided between Bechet, Bucharest and the World.

06/12/2025

Taşa is looking forward to Rezidența Lubenița 2026
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04/12/2025

The artist Xianne Han (.han) photographed by Marco Verhoogt (.verhoogt)
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Rezidenta Lubenița 2025, Bechetair

13/11/2025

TUDOR NECULA: Untitled
acrylic on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, 2025
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Tudor Necula’s paintings (tudor2002_) summon a surreal landscape where the absurd and the sacred intertwine, transforming familiar childhood symbols into uncanny visions. Executed with airbrushed acrylics, his works possess the soft gradients and artificial luminosity of digital imagery, yet their atmosphere is charged with psychological unease. In one image, a liquefied skull-like form rises from a textured pedestal, its contours dissolving into a dreamlike mountain backdrop, while flickering flames puncture the horizon like fragile memories. In another, a marble- like figure with cartoonish eyes and a red nose sits at a wooden table, both playful and tragic, a creature seemingly caught between consciousness and inanimation. These compositions suggest a world suspended between nostalgia and decay, where innocence is refracted through irony and digital alienation. Necula’s imagery speaks of generational sensibility: a space where anxiety and humor coexist, and where identity, filtered through screens and simulations, re-emerges as a sculpted hallucination of the self.
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The work has been presented in the frame of Rezidența Lubenița 2025 by .gallery in collaboration with supported by .ro
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TUDOR NECULA: Untitled
acrylic on canvas, 130 x 110 cm, 2025
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Exhibition view with the two paintings currently presented in the exhibition ‘The Fantastic Belt’ by Sandwich Gallery and Pharmakon Gallery at Sandwich Neurohope, Bucharest
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Photo credits: .verhoogt (images 2, 3) and (images 1, 4, 5)

12/11/2025

IOANA MINCU: Point of connection 4

elevating the socket to the status of a mystical relict, a totem of modern times
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ceramic, wood, socket, 90 x 23 cm (ceramic dimensions 23 x 12 cm), 2025

Inspired by Bucharest’s tangle of electric panels and exposed wires, this sculpture series reimagines electricity as a mystical force, with cables and sockets serving as metaphors for interconnectivity. They possess a sense of hybridisation between the organic and the technological.
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‘Point of connection 4‘ has been presented in the frame of Rezidența Lubenița 2025 by .gallery in collaboration with supported by .ro

Image 3 and 4: Point of connection 1
ceramic, wood, plug, wire, 56 x 20 cm (ceramic dimensions 25 x 20 cm, 2025
‘Point of connection 1’ has been presented in the exhibition What Knots Knot Knots at Atelier 35 Bucharest.

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13/09/2025

De la Bechet la … Vienna!
Dacă i-ai ratat pe artiştii din Rezidența Lubenița 2025, poți găsi câțiva dintre ei la târgul de artă de la Vienna ( ).
Vuk Cuk ( ), Andrei Tudoran ( ), Leo Toteanu ( ), Cristian Răduță ( ) la .gallery și Andrei Nițu ( ) la

18/08/2025

The watermelon is out of the bag!
We are trilled to welcome everyone at the Watermelon Extravanganza this weekend in Bechet. Join us for the vernissage on Saturday, 23rd of August, starting at 7 pm.
New and old friends from Bulgaria, Serbia, The Netherlands, France, and Romania will present works in the residency various repurposed spaces.

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Rezidența Lubenița 2025 is a .gallery project in collaboration with supported by .ro

Many thanks to our accommodation and food partners and .bar.food

08/08/2025

Happy International Cat Day! May your days be as cool and relaxing as Mufota’s 😸

She’s ready to greet you later this week for the third Watermelon AIR edition 🐾🐾🐾

07/08/2025

The Watermelon hits back. 🍉
Extravaganza Days are here again for the third edition, fuelled by friendship, sun and a strong belief in the power of bringing people together.

This year we team up with to create a 4-day unforgettable event in Bechet, filled with exhibitions, workshops, boat rides, lost and found paths. Together with our wonderful guests from Bulgaria, Serbia, France, The Netherlands and Romania we look forward to share both the inspiration and the revelation of finding each other somewhere near the end of the world.

Starting this year we begin a beautiful collaboration with Profi .ro who is supporting our cultural and educational activities in Bechet.

Thank you to Primăria Bechet for their continuous support in reaching out to the local community.

Accommodation partners: Casa Verde and Escape.
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19/02/2025

Lubenița endless summer

17/02/2025

Greetings from snowy Lubenița 🤍🌫️☁️

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